Payment to James Sellers
Document 1795Simmons certifies that $224.90 is due James Sellers for the bill of sundry expenditures by Horatio Jones, interpreter, and two Seneca chiefs while at his house for two weeks in April.
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War Department
Accountants Office
April 10th 1798
I certify that there is due to James Sellie the sum of two hundred twenty four Dollars and ninety [undecipherable] Cents being for the amount of his Bill of country [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] Interpreter and two [undecipherable] Chiefs whilst at [undecipherable] from the 10th of March to the 13th of April 1798 including the sum of fifty Dollars to be delivered to [undecipherable] James to defray the [undecipherable] of said Chiefs to their own country.
Doll 224.[undecipherable] Wm Simmons
Accountant
The Secy of War.
Accountants Office
April [undecipherable] 1798
I certify that there is due to Capt Henry De Butts the sum of three hundred [undecipherable] four Dollars and twenty nine Cents being as [undecipherable] [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] March to the Secretary of War with Dispatches and for [undecipherable] of himself and servants while in Philadelphia from the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] to the 10th of April 1798
Doll [undecipherable].[undecipherable] Wm Simmons
Accountant
The Secy of War.
Department of War
Accountants Office
April 10 1798
I certify that there is due to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Director of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the sum of two hundred thirty Dollars being the Balance of his [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] April [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] April 1798 inclusive and for [undecipherable] [undecipherable] on the same [undecipherable].
Doll [undecipherable] Wm Simmons
Accountant
The Secy of War.
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Simmons certifies that $224.90 is due James Sellers for the bill of sundry expenditures by Horatio Jones, interpreter, and two Seneca chiefs while at his house for two weeks in April.
Date
04/15/1795
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Dept. Accountant's Office
Collection
Document number
1795041521155
Page start
2
Notable persons
Timothy Pickering
William Simmons
James Sellars
James Oellers
interpreter
Horatio Jones
Seneka Chiefs
Seneca Chiefs
Secretary of War
accountant
Indians
Notable locations
War Dept. Accountant's Office
New York
Notable items
sundry expenditures
house
defray

